Convicted Rotherham grooming gang rapists
Joshua Haining – Daily Mail Nov 7, 2026
A grooming gang survivor who was raped and abused by at least 50 men was returned to the brutes by police after she mistakenly told them she was an adult.
Fiona Goddard was groomed by a gang of Asian men from the age of 14 after she ran away from a children’s home in Bradford in 2008.
What started with asking for a lighter, turned into a harrowing ordeal which would see her trafficked to Blackburn, Rotherham, Rochdale, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Oldham.
Two years after the grooming began, police officers tracked the then 16-year-old Ms Goddard to a property in Bradford.
Inside were seven men of Pakistani heritage – some half-dressed – sitting in a filthy lounge with drugs and empty bottles of alcohol littering the floor around them.
It was in these abhorrent conditions that these evil men violently raped and abused the teenager.
Officers placed Ms Goddard in the back of a police car but, having been plied with copious amounts of drugs and alcohol, she mistakenly told them she was 18.
Despite being logged on the police database as an under-age victim of child sexual exploitation, the officers returned her to the hellhole she had just been rescued from.
When they dropped Ms Goddard back at the property, one officer told her abusers: ‘She says she’s over-age – enjoy your night, lads.’
Analysis has now revealed that at least 60 police officers were involved in the grooming gang – either actively or by ignoring the sex crimes.
They have created The Network Map details the level of interconnection between groups who sexually exploit children, criminal gangs, extended families, establishments and ‘notable individuals’, including councillors and police officers.
The researchers who compiled the report have chosen to remain anonymous because they fear retaliation by the gangs.
The database pulled together criminal trial transcripts, police and local authority records, survivor testimonies and media reports.
More than 1,000 perpetrators have been identified and more than 3,000 connections have been revealed between them.
A review by Baroness Louise Casey found that Asian Muslim men were overwhelmingly responsible for the abuse of thousands of mostly white girls.
But being returned to her abusers was not the only time Ms Goddard came to the attention of the police – and she was often treated as responsible for what was happening to her.
By the age of 15, Ms Goddard had become pregnant by one of her rapists and gave birth days after her 16th birthday.
But her newborn daughter was taken from her and given up for adoption after the authorities decided she was a ‘volatile person’.
Fiona Goddard was just 14 when she was groomed by a gang of Asian men. Click to enlarge
Yet the abuse carried on for another two years, with police laying the blame on her, with Ms Goddard unable to speak out because of the violent threats she received from the men involved.
Only after years of pushing for action by Ms Goddard did the nine members of the gang face justice, and in 2019 they were sentence to more than 130 years at Bradford Crown Court. They were convicted of a series of sexual offences, rape, and grooming against two vulnerable teenage girls who were living in care in Bradford.
Ms Goddard said the prosecution was one she had to fight ‘tooth and nail for’, having repeatedly reported the case to police for five years.
‘Over the years, from 2008 and 2013, I was found in cars with men and they [police] said I was the reason society was going downhill by putting working-class men in danger,’ she said.
‘I was called a child prostitute. I was accused of exchanging sex in return for gifts by 14. And described as running a brothel by 17.
‘Repeatedly they said I was streetwise and knew how to look after myself; that even though I was a missing person it wasn’t a concern and they downgraded it.
‘Then someone highlighted I had been on the child sex exploitation watchlist for a while so they upgraded it to medium. There was a lot of stuff like that where it wasn’t taken seriously.’
Ms Goddard bravely waived her right to anonymity following the case as she ‘didn’t want people to think this was a reason to be ashamed anymore’.
‘I didn’t do anything wrong,’ she said.
Basharat Khaliq, known as Bash, was found guilty of five counts of rape and one count of assault by penetration. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He was given 16 years for each of the five counts of rape, served concurrently, and four years for assault by penetration, to be served consecutively.
Saeed Akhtar, known as Sid, was found guilty of one charge of rape and two charges of causing or inciting child prostitution. He was jailed for 20 years.
Naveed Akhtar, known as Nav, was found guilty of two counts of rape and not guilty of a third allegation of rape. He was jailed for 17 years.
Parvaze Ahmed, known as Pav, was found guilty of three charges of rape. He was jailed for 17 years.
Izar Hussain, known as Billy Joe Joe, was found guilty of one rape and one attempted rape, and acquitted of two rapes. He was given a 16-year sentence.
Kieran Harris was found guilty of two counts of rape. Described by one of his victims as ‘an evil, pixie-faced man’, he was sentenced to 17 tears.
Fahim Iqbal was found guilty of aiding and abetting rape. He was jailed for seven years.
Mohammed Usman, known as Manny, was found guilty of two counts of rape. He was jailed for 17 years.
Zeeshan Ali, known as Twinny or T, was found guilty of one charge of sexual assault. He was jailed for 18 months.